Today we had the first catchbob experiment; it worked pretty well; the group completed the game in 13 minutes (It might be too easy, maybe we should have a mobile Bob). Thanks to the self-confrontation at the end of the game, we noticed interesting things, like the way they infer stuff from locatio...
[Weird] Be careful of what you wear
Seen at the Vatican: ...
[Concept] Wimbledonization
(via) Wimbledonization: This is a term used to describe London's financial prowess through analogy with the world's number 1 tennis tournament. Just as in the tennis where British players seldom do well, so with the City of London, British banks are not the reason why the City is so successful. ...
[LifeHack] text editor for mac .txt addicts
Super recap about all the most important text editor. I also strongly believe in .txt files (I still have 10 years old txt file somewhere on my hard drive). On the Mac, I use subethaedit Look, I'm only writing this for one reason: I want to know if there are lots of other people out there who are l...
[Research] A new lab we should keep an eye on
Rochester Institute of Technology's Lab for Social Computing is a new lab that seems promising. They already set up a wiki with links on private lab andacademics working in the field. Their PR is nicely done since I saw many posts in my aggregator talking about it :) Cyberinfrastructure has been de...
[Locative Media] Fake your position!
I was amazingly interested by the report about GeoNotes usage: P.Persson and P.Fagerberg (2002). Geonotes: a real-use study of a public location-aware community system (.pdf). Technical Report SICS-T2002/27-SE, SICS, University of Goteborg, Sweden. This is going to be the next issue with locative m...
[Space and Place] Last week end in Roma
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[Tech] Buddy Bugs: bugs and instant messenging
Buddy Bugs is an ambient peripheral physical interface that represents Windows® Instant Messenger contact list, where people are represented by glass bugs on a leaf.. Touching a bug initiates an instant messaging conversation. Buddy Bugs’ basic ideas include: making status information of a few key ...
[Future] Green Tech
The Pollutec exhibit happened in Lyon few weeks ago. It's an international exhibition of environmental equipment, technology and services for industry and local authorities. An interesting list of technologies presented here as been compiled here (in french). ...
[Future] My notes on Bruce Sterling's talk in munich
Here are my notes on Bruce Sterling's talk in Munich. It was about his spime concept. Shaping Things to Come: there are six trends, convergent and integral part of a general concept, six sides of a black box: interactive ships, objects can be labelles with unique identity local and precise positio...